University of California, Berkeley, BANC MS UCB 105

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12658

Shelfmark:

BANC MS UCB 105

Title:

Liber Genesis

Place:

Paris?

Paris TGN

Date:

11--

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

negative (BOX 1034:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 105 FILM)

Physical Description:

Extent: 131 leaves : parchment ; 265 x 184 (201 x 157) mm bound to 273 x 183 mm
Extent: 1 microfilm reel : negative (BOX 1034:5) & positive (BANC MS UCB 105 FILM)

Note:

Manuscript belonged to the classical scholar Michael Wodhull and bears his arms; later came into the possession of the Rev. Henry Drury, of Harrow; then entered the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps. On front cover, the arms of Michael Wodhull. Pasted on spine, Phillipps no. 3380. On front pastedown, pasted in and partially defaced, coat of arms with motto, "[L?---] GREX." On flyleaf, in pen, in...
Ms. codex.
Title from incipit (fol. 2r).
Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 131 + ii; 1-2 8 36(+1) 4-158 1610; quires signed 1-16 in a later (17th cent.?) hand.
Layout: Fol. 1v in 2 columns, remainder 16 lines of Biblical text ruled in hard point and occasionally lead; 40-56 lines of gloss in margins and top and bottom of page. Prickings visible.
Script: Early rounded gothic hand except for first 7 lines of fol. 2r, which are in uncials; 1 scribe for both text and gloss. Marginal notes in a 17th century hand.
Decoration: Inhabited initial on fol. 2r, decorated with white interlace pattern and blue, red and green, which extends the length of the text. 1- and 2-line secondary initials in text are red; other initials touched with red up to fol. 37r. First initial of gloss on each page is 2 lines and decorated with pen flourishes.
Binding: 18th cent. French mottled calf; spine gilt in compartments, gilt inner borders, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Title on spine: "Genesis Latine M.S. Antiq. In Membran."
Origin: Produced in the 12th century in France, probably in Paris.
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, fMS UCB 105.
Former shelfmark: Berkeley, CA The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley, 2MS BS1234.L2.
1. fol. 1r: Extensive notes in 17th century hand on different editions of Vulgate, including publication dates.
2. fol. 1v: "[col. 1, gloss] Notandum quia Moyses in hoc libro de inferiori mundo in quo hoc factus est semonem facere intendit ... Dehinc sequentur distinctiones diversorum operum. [Augustine, PL 113, col. 64B] [col. 2: rubr.] Gregorius. [text] Quaerendum nobis est quoniam deus simul cuncta condidit ... In est vero ei etiam cum non apparet fructus et semen quia nimirum simul sunt in radicis...
3. fol. 2r-130v: "Incipit liber Bresith idem Genesis. In principio creavit deus caelum et terram . et expletis cx vitae suae et conditus aromatibus repositus enim in loculo Aegypto."
4. fol. 131r: "Joseph igitur qui sicut pater eius Jacob terram repromissionis tota menta disiderabat ... Adimplebis me domine leticia cum vultu tuo delectationes in dextera tua usque in finem."

Keyword:

manuscripts (documents)

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)

California--Berkeley

Institutional Record:

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991035244639706532

IIIF Manifest:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/nanna/proxy/iiif/manifest/229001/

Holding Institution:

University of California, Berkeley